Window shade and curtain bracket.



P. WASHBURN. WINDOW sauna AND CURTAIN BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED BEGIN, 1907.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .fan. 19, 1909.

Application filed December 1!, 1907. Serial No. 406,068.

5 State of Indians, have invented a new and useful Window Shade and lul'tain Bracket,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined shade and curtain bracket for windows, and has m for its object to provide in a single bracket means for supportin I one end of a window shade and one end a drapery pole. Two brackets connected by a rod Wlll be used at each window and each has means for suspending it from the window frame without employing screws or nails and which will rmit the removal of curtains, shade and i 'ackets as a unit fromthc windows when so desired, or, either shade or curtains separa tely.

The bracket is simple and cheap and may be made plain or ornamental to suit the taste of the user.

In the accompanyin drawings :-Figure 1 is a top plan View ofthe inventlon complete.

Fig. 2 is an outside View in elevation of one of the brackets. F i 3 is an inside View of the bracket used at t e opposite end. Fig. 4 is a ersp'ective View of a part of one of the Similar reference numerals are used on all the figures for the same parts.

Each bracket is made of two parts 1 and 2,

connected to ther by a screw 3 passing 35 throu h a ho e in each part and tightened to one edge, 6, of which rests normal y in vertical position against the face of the top beading 7 of a window casing. The angle 8 opposite the. vertical side 6 is rounded and has ahole formed therein for the fastening rearwardly from the upper angle 8, of t e body portion 5 and perpendicular to the side 6- is a finger 9 armed 'at its end with a downwardly proectmg pointed spike 10 which is driven mto the top edge of the beading strip 7 of the window frame when the bracket is put in place, the bottom edge of said arm restlng on the beading. I

Projecting downwardly and e' litt'lefon i Fe were;ceasevture and theother the curtain portion 5 is an arm 11 with a forwardly extending lug 12 formed thereon to receive the socket in which the shade is supported. The socket 13 on one bracket is circular, but on the other bracket the socket 14 is rectangular and open at the to in the usual manner to receive the flattened pintle of the shade stick. Through the lower angle 8 of he triangular body portion 5 is made a circular hole 15 to receive the ends of a telescopic connecting rod 16 which joins the two brackets at each window. The ends of the rod are threaded and held firmly in place b. nuts 17 screwed against the outer side of t e brackets which are fixed to the window frame.- By means of the telescopic connecti roj the brackets can be adjusted to win( owe o different widths and then fixed in such adjusted position by tightening the thumb not 16",- fastening the two parts of the connecting rod.

he outer part 2 of the bracket consists of a plate fastened at one end to the art 1 by the screw 3 and thumb nut 4 as described and 7 held from rotating on said screw by a stud 18 on the pointed inner end 20 of the part 2, seated in a hole 19 in the body part 1. If it be desired to set the plate 2 at an angle and hold it so set, a plurality of holes, concentric to the screw 3 may be madein the body 1, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3. central portion 21 of'the part 2 is bent-outwardly at an angle to the two ends which lie in parallel planes. The outer end 22 of the plate has a circular or other ornamental shape, from the upper edge of which rises a pin 23 for thepurpose of sup orting one end of the drapery pole 24, the utter having a diametrically disposed hole 25 made therein for the pur ose. The drapery pole may also be made te escopic as shown to fit various sizes of windows.

The bracket may be made of sheet metal stamped or of cast metal, and its configuration varied indefinitely provided the main essentials above enumerated are substantially retained, that is to say, a two-part bracket easily attached to and detached from a window frame, one partcarrying the shade fixole support, the twowbrac Sports being separeb y connectedtogether.

The space between the outer ends of the bracket-partsfl'is'i'flitde greater than the dis- :tanoe'between the shade fixtures 13, 14 for .thepurpo'se of carrying the outer edges of the draperies beyond the edges of the shade i l 2. The combination of e pair of two part.

separable brackets and a connecting rod oining the same, one art of each bracket hav ing a suspending nger armed with a spur for attachin the bracket to a window frame, a window s ade fixture and a hole for the connecting rod, and the other part having a vertically disposed pin for supporting adrapery pole on its outer end, and means for se )arably connecting together the two parts 0 the bracket. i

3. A pair of brackets of the character described, combined with a connecting rod joining the same, each bracket com rising a two part separable-structure pivotal y connected, the pivots of the two brackets bein in the same axial line, one part of eac bracket having thereon a suspending finger and a window shade socket lug, the other part being provided with a curtain pole holder and so formed that its outer end with said curtain pole holder lies in a plane outside its inner pivoted end and said socket 4. The combination of a pair of two part separable brackets, means for rigidly connecting the two parts, a telescopic connectin rod joining the brackets, one part of cum bracket havin a suspending fin er provided with a spur :or attaching the racket to a window frame, a window shade socket-lug and a hole for one dud of said connecting rod, and the other part having a vertically disposed pin for supporting a drapery pole on its outer end and a stud adapted to engage a perforation in the first named part,

and a telescopic drapery pole having menus at its ends to engage said vertically isposed pins.

5. A bracket of the character described comprising a two part structure pivotally connectedya srrcw forming pivot for said parts and adapted to clamp them rigidly together, one of said parts having a suspending finger a window shade sockctdug and a number of perforations l'mu'lnll'iv ,with the axis of said screw, the other part .in the presence of two witnesses.

FRED VVASHBUHN. Witnesses W. E. PRECIOUS, CHARLES Return. 

